{"id":1010017,"date":"2026-05-26T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010017"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:20:57","slug":"cyber-fraudsters-posing-as-cops-dupe-70-year-old-thane-man-of-rs-40-5-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/cyber-fraudsters-posing-as-cops-dupe-70-year-old-thane-man-of-rs-40-5-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber fraudsters posing as cops dupe 70-year-old Thane man of Rs 40.5 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old man from Maharashtra&#8217;s Thane city was allegedly duped of Rs 40.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters, who posed as police officers and threatened to arrest him in a fake terror funding case, an official said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The complainant, a former businessman from the Majiwada area, was targeted between April 9 and April 28, and, following his complaint, the Rabodi police registered a case on Saturday under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Information Technology Act, the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old man from Maharashtra&#8217;s Thane city was allegedly duped of Rs 40.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters, who posed as police officers and threatened to arrest him in a fake terror funding case, an official said on Monday. The complainant, a former businessman from the Majiwada area, was targeted between April 9 and April 28, and, following his complaint, the Rabodi police registered a case on Saturday under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Information Technology Act, the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010035,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010017\/revisions\/1010035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}